Queensland Expands Regime to Imprison Kids on Adult Time, Ignoring the UN
The Crisafulli government passed its second tranche of its “adult crime, adult time” laws on 22 May 2025, as part of a draconian policy designed to crackdown on a non-existent youth crimewave that now sees children aged 10 to 17,...
Calls for Nations to Physically Intervene in the Gaza Genocide Are Rising
A shift appeared to come to fruition last week, as photos on social media sites of pro-Palestinian activists holding signs calling for intervention in response to the Gaza genocide became ubiquitous, with the general gist being that the activists support...
Universities Australia Antisemitism Definition Regarding Israel: Ambiguous, Illogical and Flawed
On 27 February 2025, Universities Australia issued a Statement on Racism, which included a definition of antisemitism. Universities Australia has proposed this definition be utilised in three ways – for incorporation into member’s disciplinary and complaints schemes, for education purposes, and...
Sydney Criminal Lawyers® Weekly Rundown – Articles from 19 to 25 May 2025
In case you’ve missed any of them, here’s a rundown of the past week’s articles: Sydney Lawyer Fails in Attempt to Sue NSW Police Force for Malicious Prosecution A Sydney lawyer whose sexual assault charges were later dropped has failed...
Dural Caravan Antisemitism Inquiry: A Premier Class in Avoiding Parliamentary Scrutiny
The second day of hearings into the New South Wales parliamentary inquiry into the understanding that premier Chris Minns had in regard to the potential for a 19 January 2025 discovered caravan filled with explosives and a note listing Jewish...
Ecocide and Genocide Escalates in West Papua: Interview with ULMWP’s Benny Wenda
Following his re-election as Australian PM Anthony Albanese paid a visit to relatively new Indonesia president Prabowo Subianto in Jakarta, with foreign minister Penny Wong and home affairs minister Tony Burke in tow. This is a rite of passage for...
In Committing the War Crime of Starvation, Israel Is Killing Off Babies and International Law
“There are 14,000 babies that will die within the next 48 hours unless we can reach them,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher warned the BBC on Tuesday, 20 May 2025 in respect of aid trucks then lined up at the...
“Erasure as Solidarity”: Black Peoples Union’s Keiran Stewart-Assheton on Settler Left Paradigms
Founded on this continent in 2022, the Black Peoples Union is an Indigenous political organisation that’s “working towards building a pan-Aboriginal movement in Australia, so that we can fight for our self-determination and our sovereignty”. But due to the BPU’s...
Victoria to Spend Millions on More Prison Beds for Unconvicted Youths
Ahead of its 20 May Budget for 2025/26, the Victorian Labor government last week announced it’s investing an extra $727 million on new prison beds because premier Jacinta Allan is well aware that current trends in governing Australian states and...
New Footage of Melbourne Synagogue Torching Reminiscent of Fake Sydney Attacks
The Joint Counter Terrorism Team released the footage of the arson attack targeting the Naarm-Melbourne Adass Israel Synagogue that happened after 4 am on 6 December 2024, at a time when so-called “antisemitic” crime was the major headline, and the...
